Month: October 2024

A huge thank you to everyone who attended our CPR Training sessions last week.

We trained 76 local people in how to recognise a cardiac arrest, how to perform hands-only CPR and how to use our Community Defibrillators.

Good CPR, and use of a community defibrillator prior to the arrival of the emergency services, has been shown to quadruple your chances of survival from a cardiac arrest. Almost 80% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur at home, so you are more likely to use these skills on someone you know than on a stranger.

If you would like to learn and practice CPR at home, you can visit:

https://revivr.bhf.org.uk

To find where the Community Defibrillators are, have a look at the Parish Map on the “Our Village” page of our website:

Our Village – Charvil Parish Council

If you attended our sessions but have not yet received your certificate, please contact:

Charvil’s Community Orchard is located next to the play area behind the Village Hall.

Since 2021, we’ve been planting around 6 trees per year. This year, we’re hoping to do the same. We currently have varieties of apple, pear, plum and damson trees, but have space for 30 fruit trees in total.

All our trees have been sponsored by local residents, and we are now taking applications to sponsor a tree to be planted in National Tree Week in November.

If you sponsor a tree, you can help plant it and look after it, or leave it to our green-fingered volunteers, who also use the rainwater collection tank at the Village Hall to keep plants hydrated in the summer months.

You can find out more about the Community Orchard by visiting the Community Orchard page

If you would like to sponsor a tree, or would like to volunteer to help plant or care for our orchard, please contact: